Just last month AGL struck a deal to produce power from its Silverton wind farm in New South Wales for $65 a megawatt hour (MWh) – cheaper than predicted future coal costs.

Mr Bray says the Government is misleading voters about the costs of renewables.

“Australia’s coal-fired power stations are falling apart and in need of urgent replacement but the Prime Minister is more interested in talking up so-called clean coal, even though the cost of getting it working would be astronomical.

“Mr Turnbull admitted himself that new carbon capture storage technologies aren’t an option – $590 million has been wasted on studies over the last decade with nothing to show for it. You could have built three new operating wind farms for that.”